Correspondence with S T Hussain and Sons, Livestock Dealers in Calcutta, regarding the sale of animals to the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence with Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the Zoological Gardens in Alipore, Calcutta, offering temporary housing to animals being sent to the Zoological Society of London, including a pair of panther cubs

Correspondence between the Zoological Garden in Alipore and the Zoological Society of London regarding a collection for the Society being shipped from Colombo to Calcutta by Mr Osman Hill

Correspondence between the Zoological Garden in Alipore and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding specimens collected by Mr Frost, and a request for Chimpanzees and a Pigmy Hippopotamus

Letters from Gerald Chetwynd Talbot, Private Secretary to the Governor General of India, to David William Mitchell regarding occurrences in the upper provinces of India which prevent the sending of Himalayan birds to England and the agent sent to Calcutta by the Zoological Society of London, a wild goat sent for presentation to Prince Albert, and a collection of hill birds for Prince Albert

Correspondence with Professor K Lorenz regarding a grey lag, a jackdaw and a mallard to be taken to Lime Grove, a paper on the ethology of the European Bullfinch by Dr Jurgen Nicolai, and a request for bullfinches from Calcutta

Correspondence with K L Acooli and Sons of Calcutta, regarding the purchase of animals for the Zoological Society of London

Letter from H C James to David William Mitchell regarding his dispatch to Calcutta from Darjeeling, and birds that are destined for the Zoological Society of London

Letter regarding a Bill of Lading for the wild animals shipped to the Zoological Society of London per S.S. City of Calcutta

Letters from Grindlay and Co to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the transport of animals and birds from Calcutta